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SETMI

Search for ExtraTerrestrial Music Intelligence

By

Dr. Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg

WAS THERE A TWANG BEFORE THE BIG BANG?

There is a growing acknowledgment among physicists world wide, including
several Nobel laureates, that the universe may actually exist in higher-dimensional
space.

Michio Kaku, Hyperspace

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because
in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying
to solve.

Max Planck

Everything has now changed, except our way of thinking

Albert Einstein

It seems absurd that astronomy, the oldest science, cannot tell us what
the universe is made of.

Jeff Kanipe, Editor, Astronomy

TRY TO IMAGINE

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO ROCK & ROLL IF WE
DISCOVERED MUSIC ALIENS WHO HAD:
JUST ONE EXTRA FINGER ON EACH HAND
OR
FINGERS THAT HAD AN EXTRA JOINT

OR THINK OF THIS ANOTHER WAY
TRY TO IMAGINE THE MUSIC KEITH RICHARDS WOULD MAKE IF HE HAD
SIX FINGERS ON EACH HAND, AND EACH HAD AN EXTRA ONE INCH JOINT

OR

WHAT IF MUSIC ALIENS HAD JUST
TWO MORE OCTAVES TO THEIR VOICE?

OR THINK OF THIS ANOTHER WAY
TRY TO IMAGINE TINA TURNERS VOICE THAT COULD WAIL ONE
OCTAVE LOWER AND ONE OCTAVE HIGHER

WHAT IF:

TIME IS PARALLEL, NOT LINEAR: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE IN A SINGLE
PLANE.

EXISTENCE IS A HOLOGRAPHIC

HIGHER "ALIEN" INTELLIGENCE IS ALREADY EMBEDDED IN OUR DNA, ONLY
MOST OF US HAVENT FIGURED OUT HOW TO DECIPHER IT.

THE DECIPHERING PROCESS IS FIGURING OUT THE RIGHT HOLGRAPHIC MUSIC HARMONICS
TO INJECT INTO THE BRAIN TO RELEASE THIS EMBEDDED ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE

TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL PERMIT US TO COMMUNICATE WITH PLANTS AND ANIMALS IS
ABOUT TO APPEAR

"MUSIC IS THE ENERGY THAT EXCITES THE HOLOGRAM OF EXISTENCE"

Was it possible, he* wondered, that what the mystics
had been saying for centuries were true, reality was maya, an illusion,
and what was out there was really a vast, resonating symphony of waves, a
"frequency domain" that was transformed into the world as we know
it only after it entered our senses?

The feature article in April 1999/Rolling Stone Magazine
is a story about an Internet millionaire who has dropped out of Cyberspace,
and is devoting his life to SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
(www.thewordistruth.org). The music industry, which has traditionally supported
revolutionary political ideas, is just beginning to explore the revolution
in cosmology and quantum physics. Like you, I started to explore the notion
of higher forms of musical intelligence a number of years ago, and it is time
to enlist your help and go further and deeper. Why is it so important for
us to expand our imagination about the nature of music, mind and evolution?

Let me make the sequence of music expansion clear: (1)
expanded imagination, (2) new technology, and (3) new forms of musical expression.

2001 is 1899

Lets pretend, because this imaginative leap will
help put this adventure in perspective. One hundred years ago we were poised
at the next century and there was much excitement. Now lets check out
the amazing world of 1899. There is no electricity. There are no motor cars
or airplanes. There is no electronics, little or no music in our lives, no
computers, no hot-rods, no Playboy Magazine, no television, no rock and roll,
no pizza, and while we have heard about motion pictures we havent seen
them yet. In spite of the dizzying changes all about us, it is very difficult
to believe the fantastic stories we hear about the future.

Can you imagine the effect on someone living in 1899 if
we could bring them just thirty years into the future to 1930?

I am suggesting that the same type of dynamic is still
true, and many of you will find the notion of higher dimension of music
intelligence unbelievable. If I would have predicted in 1899 that, very
soon, you would have all the music you wanted in your home, or on the street,
or in your car, and would have described a rock concert, you would have looked
at me like I was crazy, and you would be right. If I had tried to describe,
in 1940, the electric guitar you would have screamed in horror.

Yet, we are on the verge of exactly the same type of revolutionary
shift in human culture, and it is not about technology, but about the
way our mind in our brain organizes itself. These revolutionary shifts in
mind/brain have occurred many times during its current 500,000-year-old form,
yet we seem oblivious to them. Not only is the human mind, for the first time,
on the verge of knowing higher dimensions of reality, it is on the verge of
expressing higher dimensions of music reality, and music will be the primary
mutagenic of this new mind expansion.

For this new music paradigm to emerge a new music mind
must emerge first; a mind capable of imagining higher dimension of music intelligence.
This is already happening, and again, like our friends in 1899, if they had
looked harder they would have discovered the auto, electricity, and electronics
were very pregnant ideas, and would soon be born into their world.

DONT MIND ME

Anyone who studies the development of mind is keenly aware
that they are studying not an elegant, coherent or consistent design
but more a Rube Goldberg, a cognitive mish/mash patch work quilt of conflicting
cognitive centers. We all know how very little we know about mind, but we
can be sure of this: the enigmas, paradoxes and conflicts inherent in the
structure of mind is manifest in all human activities.

As we enter the next millennia we are hearing predictions
about what the future holds, yet there little or no rumination on how our
mind will evolve. It is easy to talk about the material world. It is very
difficult to describe the evolution of trees while you living up one in the
forest.

BREAKOUT

To this thermionic techno-shaman, the major breakout of
the next century is very predictable: we will begin to experience beyond our
normal four dimensional reality and finally sense what Einstein predicted
almost one hundred years ago....reality is far more complex than we experience
with our feeble "modern model" of reality. Those of you who are
following the frontiers of quantum physics and cosmology know what I am talking
about.

We also know that we humans were making music long before
we created thought or used language, by about 20,000 years. This priority
of music over thought is discussed very little. This obvious continuum between
music consciousness and the creation of mind seems a taboo subject.

We can be sure of the priority of music consciousness
because Neanderthal/Stone Age flutes were discovered that have diatonic scales
(www.webstar.sk.ca/greenwich/OG-EZ.HTM), which, according to their dating,
are about twenty thousand years older than the appearance of thought/language.
How do we know that pre-thought man was creating symbolic rhythmic sounds?
Anthropologist can measure their intervals. Our genius for organizing harmonics
into meaningful patterns preceded our genius for thought.... or is it all
the same? This shouldnt surprise any of us because, what is language
other than rhythmic patterns of symbolic sounds? This means we had developed
the capacity to create rhythmic symbolic sounds before we created thought
and language, because you cant have one without the other. The meaning
of sound is that it has meaning because our survival depended on our brains
ability to ascribe meaning to harmonics.

THE TWANG BEFORE THE BIG BANG™

You are all aware of The Big Bang; the notion that the
universe started with a big explosive harmonic. This is the central intellectual
theorem of cosmology, and it is all wrong, and I am the first to name it.
The Big Bang was not the primal moment of creation. Something happened before
it, and it was a Twang.

Let me explain why the BIG
BANG was not the primal sound. The Big Bang is an
intellectual construction, a metaphor of a scientific four-dimensional mind;
a meme of the old paradigm, like musical accuracy. A couple of obvious points:
(1) the true reality of the universe is not four dimensions, but N dimensions
and asserting that the primal creation can be known with a feeble four dimensional
mind is arrogant, Yet, paradoxically there is great scientific humility about
scientists general weak understanding of the nature of the universes
reality. Astronomers now admit just how little they know. How little do scientists
know about reality? Put on your safety belts, because

THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF MUSIC

For scientists, music simply doesnt exist, because
there is no scientific proof for musics existence. It cant
be weighed, measured, or quantified.

You and I and billions of others know that music exists
because we experience it in our body.... only. Out there is only noise...and
it only becomes music when it enters our being. Music has not independent
existence..music is only an emotion...and deeply felt concrete physical experience.
But for scientist this, one of the worlds most common emotions, this
experience doesnt exist.... because music only exists within us, like
love, hate, courage, and hope....and these experiences cant be quantified.
The most common and compelling human experiences, those, which are at the
foundation of culture, because they can not be scientifically measured, do
not exist for scientists, in the way that God or any other spiritual force
can not exist for the scientific investigator.

LETS GET IN TOUCH WITH REALITY:
MUSIC AS A MUTAGENIC OF MIND/BODY

Shall I say this another way? Music is now (because mind
mandated it) the primary mutagenic of mind. Music created mind. Mind then
created exactly the type of music that it needed to advance its mutation.
The music mind is self-mutagenic. Music is the best tool for enhancing the
sensitivity of neural synapses so that their capacity to generate "imagination"
is expanded, which is exactly what is missing in the scientific community,
and in most segments of the audio industry. Imagination always creates the
future. Imagination is the Twang before the Big Bang. The dematerial existed
before the material.

Or let me put it another way. The scientific mind will
not be able to grasp higher dimensions of reality because it cant tune
into the full range of harmonics of the universe. Cosmology and quantum physics,
like all good orthodox religions are brilliantly structured, internally consistent,
powerful editors, that desperately hopes it has some sticky relationship to
reality. Science will not be able embrace the complexity of the universe until
it is able to get much further down into its funky harmonic intelligence;
the intelligence that was proto-thought, the mind that knew before the mind
became an editor, the mind that is creating its own mutation to higher level
of perception.

Higher forms of intelligent life exists, They are,
it is, just like mind, a dematerial form of energy, and it is already deeply
embedded in the harmonics of the mind, except our hearing is not sensitive
enough to hear what it/they are telling us. That is why I have organized
SETM™:SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Music in mind is an out of control virus that forces the mutation of mind.
Yet, there is no doubtto make CONTACT we need more advanced music
technology, not more advanced telescopes, and for that to happen we must first
elevate our music consciousness; we must first elevate our imagination.

THE URGE TO MERGE WITH A HIGHER FORCE

How intense are humankinds efforts to alter its
mind/body metacontext? How large is the demand for mind alteration in America?
I did some research on this subject while I was Chairman of the Addiction
Brain Trust and tried to figure out how much Americans were spending on all
forms of mind/body altering substances: alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs.
The amount of dollars spent was much larger than the Defense Department budget.
When you add in other forms of exogenous mind/body altering products like
music and audio technology, it appears to me that Americas largest group
of consumer products are those that are expressly designed to get us out of
"normal mind" and boot us up into an altered state of consciousness.
This is nothing new, yet it is one of the best insights into the music explosion
all over the world.... humans are demanding increasing doses of mind expanding
stimulation.

Nothing is a clearer sign of our species genius
than our creativity in inventing and discovering WHAT
EVER IT TAKES to improve the mutation and evolution
of mind, and at the top of that creative impulse is the invention, in this
century, of the process of encoding and decoding music. Clearly, today
music is the most commonly consumed psychotropic substance. Music is an exogenous
neural transmitter; it is an external stimulant to the brain. Mind
knows how to create stimulants to alter its own processes. Music alters and
advances the operation of our brain in exactly the same way as any (now illegal)
plant alkaloid. This explains why music is so popular. We need to alter our
minds so that it gets out of its low level industrial, and highly edited,
limited perceptual/sensual metacontext, and is made more aware, more alert,
and more capable of experiencing the whole-osity of reality.

Now let me bring you back to our state of intellectual
primitivism. We are just beginning to accept the dynamics of the evolution
of species thanks to a theory created in the last half of the 19th century
by Darwin. Almost one hundred and fifty years later there are still wide segments
of the American population that resist this notion and believes that the world
was created in seven days. As we enter the 21st century we still dont
have a credible theory about the evolution of mind, but mind doesnt
care, because it just keeps on mutating. What a perplexing paradox...we
are still not yet intelligent enough to understand the evolution of intelligence.

A BLADE OF GRASS BREAKING THROUGH THE CONCRETE

While I was in the middle of the Soviet revolution a friend
of mind, a Catholic priest offered me this insight into the life of Jesus
Christ, the Soviet revolution, and all revolutions. He said..."Revolutions
are blades of grass breaking through the concrete". The future never
emerges from the center, but from the passionate rebel on the edge.

This is grand good news for those with a brave new vision
of the audio arts, and the new generation of music lovers who are not bound
by the old four-dimensional paradigm of music. The harder we hold on to the
old ways the sooner we will perish. Mutate or die, which means it is time
for us to elevate our imagination about music and music technology.